Founding feminist, Virginia Woolf scholar, and strong-willed enemy
of the patriarchy (as well as mother, grandmother, and wife), Carolyn
Heilbrun lived her ideals. The right to choose death—she committed
suicide in October—was one of them.

This summer, a handful of young, ambitious, Manhattan-bred guys has cornered the market on nightlife in the Hamptons. They make sure Tara Reid is in the house, everyone’s drinking $400 bottles of Perrier-Jouët, and, in return, they get one big payoff: the chance to become boldfaced names themselves.

The rise of Internet dating has brought a sexual openness (not to mention
one-night stands) to the younger generation not seen since the seventies heyday of Maxwell's Plum. But can there be too much of a good thing?